Don Hynes > Quotes

“Like snow melt
and passing leaves,
we show our faces
then are gone,
and like rivers we pour.”
― Don Hynes

“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Let me rise in darkness,
be fed by morning silence
and choose each day to say yes.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Each day I go to this altar,
emptying the night
bucket after bucket,
until I've space enough
for the morning.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Daring to raise my eyes,
I call out, a bird-like sound,
giving myself to this day,
abandoning desire
for all except you.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“The lure of deep water
and gathering night,
held in the mystery
I kneel to taste
at the earth altar.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“There's a woman asleep
in the body of salmon
behind the jagged teeth
and furious jaw,
parting the river
with wild desire.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Something dark and unseen
breaks into awareness,
bursting like a mushroom
with the full throat of desire.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Written on water,
their stories given to the sea,
carried where tides travel
to the holy book
at the end of time.”
”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Sunlight heals the eyes,
water sounds a listening grace.
Lineage of sun and earth,
children of the eternal,
here and now, we are good.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“The earth opens
and down I tumble,
into a vault of seeds,
perfect and unbroken.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Ravenous for knowledge
I
devour the silence,

then kneel, an acolyte,

in dawn’s gray light.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“I climb the vine-covered walls
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Quietly I spread like snow

the silence of my heart,

and discover this day

how deeply I belong.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Death, death it is,
their horrid voices croak,
as mountain rivers melt
in rushing floods.
Yet even as waters boil,
deep within the earth
armies of the Angel rise,
trumpeting symphonies
of the apocalypse.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“However far I travel
the earth remains the earth,
held like a newborn
each new day,
a silent presence
among the stars.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“What broke me was wildness,
and wildness my salvation.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“I never will be sober
while desire guides me,
lured by darkness
to distant light,
where sky gods celebrate
those who love night glory,
who dare once more
to sing among the stars.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Rivers don’t sleep,

dark forests rise,

sodden roots shatter

the concrete prison.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Signal the stars if you hear me,
and lift your soul in silence steeped,
that dark night beauty find you.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Holding to each other
we burn back the pressing dark
with the fire we've tended,
alone together beside the river,
quiet as the trees.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Welcome the womb,
seed and flower,
welcome the timeless,
welcome the hour.
Welcome the grieving,
all who mourn,
welcome the earth,
welcome the dawn.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“After years of toil and grief
I turn and face forward
in my unexpected seat
on the train to Eden”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“Before a wall

of ancient stone,

I place prayers

in cracks of silence.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

“In the embrace of silence,
just me and a few words
waiting in the shadows,
loitering in the dark
like hungry lovers.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“There is the land
green and rising
and there is the heart
empty of longing,
with room at last
for silence.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit